MS Thr 561Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Virginia Woolf Monk's House
photograph album (MH-4): Guide.
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Repository: Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard
College Library, Harvard University
Location: b
Call No.: MS Thr 561
Creator: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
Title: Virginia Woolf Monk's House photograph album (MH-4),
Date(s): 1890-1947 (inclusive),
Date(s): 1923-1939 (bulk).
Quantity: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)
Language of materials: Collection materials are in English.
Abstract: The fourth of six photograph albums compiled by English writer, Virginia Woolf.
Processed by: Alison Drew Harris with the assistance of Jennifer
Lyons.
No accession number. Gift of Frederick R.
(Frederick Robinson) Koch, received: 1983 March.
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Virginia Woolf Monk's House Photograph Album (MH-4),
(MS Thr 561). Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton
Library, Harvard University.
Virginia Woolf (1882 –1941) was an English novelist, essayist,
diarist, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories.
Virginia Woolf Monk's House photograph album (MH-4) was most
likely arranged originally by Virginia Woolf as well as possibly
Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell and other family members.
Most of the albums are missing photographs that may now be
located in the loose photographs listed below in the cataloging.
These image may have been removed to serve as illustrations for
Leonard Woolf's publications as well as A marriage of two
minds by George Spater and Ian Parsons.
The albums were numbered one through six when gifted by Frederick
R. Koch to the Houghton Library in 1983. This order was retained
in the repository. Photographs are numbered in order of appearance in the album. In
addition, the recto of pages are numbered in order of appearance
in the album. Pages devoid of any photographs are not
numbered.
The majority of the photographs in this album are snapshots
possibly taken by Virginia Woolf or by her friends and family.
The rest of the photographs include portraits or scenic
landscapes of their homes or from their travels. The subject of
the majority of the photographs are family and friends of
Virginia Woolf. Subjects include Virginia Woolf, Julian Bell,
Quentin Bell, Dora de Houghton Carrington, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
Forster, Roger Eliot Fry, Angelica Garnett, Duncan Grant, Ralph
Partridge, and Lytton Strachey.
Some locations of the photographs were identified. Some of these
were taken at the home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Monk's
House (Sussex, England). Other locations include the home, Ham
Spray House (Marlborough, England), of Dora Carrington and
Lytton Strachey. Virginia and Leonard Woolf also took
photographs during ta vacation to France. Most of these image
are of landscapes or buildings.
For other Monk's House photographs see: MS Thr 557, MS Thr 559, MS Thr 560, MS Thr 561, MS Thr 562.
Humm, Maggie. Snapshots of
Bloomsbury: The private lives of Virginia Woolf and
Vanessa Bell (New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers
University Press, 2006. )
Monk's House Album IV is bound in cardboard with red, art
deco paper covers and has white leaves. Written on the cover
in ink, 1939.
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(1) Lady Baldwin's Audience :
clipping from
News Chronicle, 5 May
1938.
Newspaper clipping regarding Lady Baldwin addressing
wives and mothers about the formation of babies' welfare
clubs.
Location: Album IV, page 2.
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(1a) Roger Eliot Fry : portrait by
Lenare (Studio), undated. 1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; 31 x 25 centimeters.
Stamped on verso: "Photograph by Lenare," 28 George
Street, Hanover Square, W.1.
Photograph tipped into album inside front cover.
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(52) Stephen Spender and
Angelica Garnett bowling on
the lawn. Monk's House (Sussex, England),
1939. 1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; 6 x 6 centimeters.
Inscription above image: 1939.
Inscription below image: Stephen Spender.
Location: Album IV, page 17.
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(73) Profile of E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
sitting in an armchair with bookshelf in the
background. Possibly Monk's House (Sussex,
England), undated. 1 photographic postcard : gelatin silver print ; 9 x 14 centimeters.
Inscription: E.M. Forster.
Different angle of similar image (71).
Location: Album IV, page 23.
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(78) Miss Griffiths [surname] among the flowers
in the garden. Possibly Monk's House (Sussex,
England), undated. 1 photographic postcard : gelatin silver print ; 14 x 9 centimeters.
Inscription: Miss Griffiths.
First name of subject is not known.
Location: Album IV, page 25.
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(91) Duncan Grant holding a dog and
sitting next to Chattie Salaman
with Virginia Woolf in
the background. Possibly Monk's House (Sussex,
England), undated. 1 photographic postcard : gelatin silver print ; 9 x 14 centimeters.
Inscription: DG, VW, Chattie Salaman.
Location: Album IV, page 31.
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(99) An unidentified woman with dog and kitten in the
garden. Possibly Monk's House (Sussex,
England), 1947.
1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; 14 x 9 centimeters.
Inscription: [Illegible], Alcatus.
Location: Album IV, page 34.
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(100) Unidentified woman petting Sappho
the cat and a kitten, 1947.
1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; 14 x 9 centimeters.
Inscription: Sappho and Alacatus, 1947.
Location: Album IV, page 34.
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(105) Sappho and Pluto, both cats
outdoors. Possibly Monk's House (Sussex,
England), 1947.
1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; 9 x 14 centimeters.
Inscription: Sappho and Plato, 1947.
Location: Album IV, page 35.
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